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Croatia Airlines intends on launching services between Zagreb and Dublin this summer season as part of a wider expansion of its network. The Irish Embassy in Croatia said it was looking forward to increased cooperation between Croatia Airlines and the airports in Zagreb and Dublin following talks between the carrier's CEO and Ambassador Olive Hempenstall last week. For its part, Dublin Airport noted it is in negotiations with a number of carriers but would not comment on individual talks. Croatia Airlines plans to unveil its summer expansion plans in full during February or early March. So far, the company has announced the introduction of new seasonal services between Dubrovnik and Munich, as well as Split and Copenhagen. It will also boost frequencies from Zagreb to Rome, Skopje, St Petersburg and Tel Aviv.

Croatia Airlines initially outlined Dublin in a list of potential destinations to be introduced from Zagreb last summer season, after completing a feasibility study into the route's viability. During the 2016/2017 Christmas holiday period, the Croatian carrier operated several charter flights between Osijek and Dublin. Ireland has become the fastest growing diaspora community for Croatians over the past few years. In addition, there is a significant number of Irish tourists visiting the Croatian coast. Croatia Airlines plans to wet-lease capacity this summer and will free up one of its Airbus jets for a significant block of hours as it terminates five of its nine weekly flights between Zagreb and London Heathrow, which will allow for the carrier to increase frequencies on existing services and launch new routes. The airline has added new destinations to its network each summer for the past two years.

There are currently no scheduled flights between Zagreb and Dublin. Ireland's national airline, Aer Lingus, maintains seasonal services to Dubrovnik, Split and Pula. The Irish carrier will add an extra flight from Dublin to Dubrovnik this summer, resulting in daily operations, while services to both Split and Pula will also be increased by one additional service for a total of three and four per week respectively. "We are delighted to announce the further strengthening of our network to Croatia with these additional flights. The extra frequencies to Dubrovnik, Split and Pula will allow us to continue offering the choice, service and value that delivered our Skytrax four-star accreditation and we look forward to welcoming guests on board these services to Croatia in 2018", the airline said. Asked whether it could add Zagreb to its network in the foreseeable future, the Irish carrier noted, "Flights could be introduced if we determine that this route matches our customers’ needs, is economically viable and makes a positive financial contribution to our business as a whole".UPDATE: Croatia Airlines has now scheduled its new Zagreb - Dublin service. Further details are available here.

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WoW, then send caps lock email to FR:) You can always continue traveling as you do now and avoid OU...people are usually happy with any additional choice, but obviously metrics are different in this case.

entire summer timetable, march to october there are 3 weekly Zadar-Dublin, in june and july 4 weekly, by FR. And ZAD is very easily accesible from entire HR, few hours drive on modern highway from practically every corner of HR. So, I don't see any drama in OU opening DUB from its base/hub ZAG

Great. I hope travel times and frequency will be suitable for business travel. I'm getting sick of FRA/MUC. During summer they will probably catch also quite some passengers from SLO (I'm also from SLO).

This is also lost opportunity for Adria IMHO, JP could easily fill CR9 three times per week during summer season.

Purger on Croatian TV the other night talking about this. I would add that there is a worldwide pilot shortage at the moment, especially for captains and many Asian airlines are offering very tempting pay and conditions. This could be a contributor too. But I do agree that its pretty hopeless form by OU that they have not agreed to or even started negotiating (correct me if I'm wrong) a new collective agreement as they promised they would to stop the crew from striking. This puts the summer season at major risk of a strike this year.

Purger also said that nobody is in position to negotiate new contracts and that OU is in privileged position at Croatian Airports. Well we have seen that when the DBV flight has landed in Rome this summer.

Purger also said that nobody is in position to negotiate new contracts and that OU is in privileged position at Croatian Airports. Well we have seen that when the DBV flight has landed in Rome this summer.

Purger also said that nobody is in position to negotiate new contracts and that OU is in privileged position at Croatian Airports. Well we have seen that when the DBV flight has landed in Rome this summer.

AMS and CDG are usually with best LF, sometimes 100% in summer. They might deploy 321 to LHR as well, in order to compensate for fewer LHR slots/flights. SPU and DBV with 5 daily frequencies, probably only here and there, or when 321 is continuing from SPU or DBV to AMS/CDG/FRA/LGW

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